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- 1From:AEI Paper & StudiesWe are 15 years into a federal policy initiative to help disadvantaged individuals and couples form and sustain healthy relationships and stable marriages. Family instability contributes to a host of poorer outcomes for...
- 2From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Julius (1918-1953) and Ethel (1915-1953) Rosenberg were a nondescript couple accused in 1950 by the United States government of operating a Soviet spy network and giving the Soviet Union plans for...
- 3From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsTitle II of the Act makes several adjustments in federal death penalty law, which concern air piracy cases arising before 1994, a redundant procedural mechanism in federal capital drug cases, supervised release for...
- 4From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The infliction of the death penalty as punishment for certain crimes. (See capital offense.) In the United States, capital punishment has been an extremely controversial issue on legal, moral, and ethical grounds. In...
- 5From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The death penalty for a crime....
- 6From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsThe continuing political crises discussed above have dashed most hopes that Iraq will become a fully functioning democracy with well-established institutions and rule of law. National Oil Laws and Other Pending Laws...
- 7From:International Narcotics Control Strategy ReportI. Summary The Government of Singapore (GOS) enforces stringent counternarcotics policies through strict laws--including the death penalty and corporal punishment--vigorous law enforcement, and active prevention...
- 8From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsMurder is a federal capital offense if committed in any of more than 50 jurisdictional settings. The Constitution defines the circumstances under which the death penalty may be considered a sentencing option. With an eye...
- 9From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsSummary Most capital offenses are state crimes. In 1994, however, Congress revived the death penalty as a federal sentencing option. More than a few federal statutes now proscribe offenses punishable by death. A...